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[Perry]

They'd sooner pay cheap and get cheap than pay a market price and get good.
If this is a free country. Should they not have this choice?

Yes, they should, but other people have other notions and nostrums.

Be careful what you wish for, comes to mind.

The raucous, clamouring, public busybody do-gooders have different ideas.

Who are we to criticise and possibly frustrate other peoples life choices?

The 'we' are not you and I and other LLs, Peter. It is the squeaking-wheel, public busybody do-gooders who stand indicted of trying to run other folks lives the way they think they should be.

[artemis]

This exchange was on the TradeMe real estate message board today.

I know of two people who's homes are not insulated nor have had any work done on them for many years. They have both been told by the landlords that if it comes to being forced to insulate et , they will be evicted and the house sold instead.


And in response -

That is exactly what has happened to me & the property has sold.In the street I am in there have been 5 other rentals sold as the LL's cant be bothered with all the new rules etc & not one has been purchased as a rental leaving so many of us looking for the very rare & elusive rental.

[Perry]

That can't be so. Can it?

Oh, dear.

Oh, dear.

It wouldn't be the law of Unintended Consequences at work, would it?

[Bob Kane]

The 'we' are not you and I and other LLs, Peter. It is the squeaking-wheel, public busybody do-gooders who stand indicted of trying to run other folks lives the way they think they should be.

Go on, just say it like it is.
People who join the Greens or the Labour Party.

[Wayne]

That is exactly what has happened to me & the property has sold.In the street I am in there have been 5 other rentals sold as the LL's cant be bothered with all the new rules etc & not one has been purchased as a rental leaving so many of us looking for the very rare & elusive rental.

So that could be 5 families in their own house no longer looking to rent.
Where's the problem?

[Anthonyacat]

I wonder, what if the government incentivised families with spare bedrooms, renting these out?

It's often noted that a rental sold to a homeowner decreases overall accommodation stock, because owned homes have fewer bodies in them, on average - bedrooms are left 'spare'.

Think of all the spare accommodation space this city has inside existing houses!

[Wayne]

It's often noted that a rental sold to a homeowner decreases overall accommodation stock, because owned homes have fewer bodies in them, on average - bedrooms are left 'spare'.

Often noted but that doesn't make it true.
I have recently met a surprising number of young couples renting 3 bedroom houses - without flatmates.
I can't understand it myself but they do.

[Nzdan]

We have a third bedroom we aren't using. Maybe if enough people list their spare bedrooms on trademe as relocatables someone could stitch them together elsewhere and voila problem solved.

[eri]

news tonight had ray white being shutdown very quickly

for offering japanese style capsules stacked in a large auckland room

news had a talking head saying while they were 'habitable'

they were not 'liveable'

Under Auckland Council's 2008 hostels bylaw, a boarding house is shared by five or more tenants. According to the bylaw, if a room is smaller than 4.5sq m, it cannot be rented to sleep a person.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11913700

so don't expect council to look for workable short term solutions...

[Bob Kane]

Those pods would be dry, warm and not draughty?
Handrails?
Seem to meet the WOF requirements.

[Wayne]

We have a third bedroom we aren't using. Maybe if enough people list their spare bedrooms on trademe as relocatables someone could stitch them together elsewhere and voila problem solved.

We have 4 that we aren't using - and no one is going to have them!

[eri]

Those pods would be dry, warm and not draughty?
Handrails?
Seem to meet the WOF requirements.

gold plated or nothing!

after all council aren't paying

[artemis]

Auckland CC is looking into the sleeping pods.

"We will investigate this further to determine whether the pods, and how they were being advertised, breach any Building Code, resource consent or Auckland Unitary Plan rules."

The Body Corporate is not too happy either as the number of potential tenants will increase use of lifts and utilities. Apartment is on the ground floor, but perhaps the BC is worried that others will follow. Would the BC rules include maximum number of tenants in a unit?

The apartment is large.

Maybe the owner should turn the pods into storage units and install the same number of bunk beds, or allow hot bedding. What's the difference, apart from the level of technology?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/96395747/auckland-council-investigating-sleeping-pods-advertised-for-rent-in-downtown-apartment-building